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DELIGHT
Definition of DELIGHT
noun
Joy; pleasure.
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Where it comes from
Attested from the 13th century, from Middle English delite, from Old French deleiter, deliter, from Latin dēlectāre (“to delight, please”), frequentative of dēlicere (“to allure, entice”), from dē- (“away”) + laciō (“to lure, to deceive”), from Proto-Italic *lakjō (“to draw, pull”), of unknown ultimate origin. Doublet of delect. Related with delectation, delicate, delicious and dilettante. The modern unetymological spelling (instead of expected delite) is influenced by light and other words ending in -ight, such as might, bright, etc. The -gh- may also be an attempt to represent the Latin -c-; compare obsolete indight for indict.
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Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,912)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, DELIGHT · 3 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
DELIGHT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 39 boards so far. 64 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 145, 12 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
DELIGHT starts with D and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read DEGHILT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start DELIGH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found DELIGHT?
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